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1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations. |
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Critical issues in health and medicine
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The making of health internationalists / Theodore M. Brown and Anne-Emanuelle Birn -- The perils of unconstrained enthusiasm : John Kingsbury, Soviet public health, and 1930s America / Susan Gross Solomon -- American medical support for Spanish democracy, 1936,1938 / Walter J. Lear -- Medical Mccarthyism and the punishment of internationalists in the United States / Jane Pacht Brickman -- Contesting racism and innovating community health centers : approaches on two continents / H. Jack Geiger -- Barefoot in China, the Bronx, and beyond / Victor W. Sidel and Ruth Sidel -- Medical internationalism and the last epidemic / Bernard Lown -- Social medicine, at home and abroad / Howard Waitzkin -- Find the best people and support them / Paula Braveman Cooperantes, solidarity, and the fight for health in Mozambique / Stephen Gloyd, James Pfeiffer and Wendy Johnson -- From Harlem to Harare : lessons in how social movements and social policy change health / Mary Travis Bassett -- Brigadistas and revolutionaries : health and social justice in El Salvador / Michael Terry with Laura Turiano -- Health and human rights in Latin America : a lawyers experience with public health internationalism / Alicia Ey Yamin -- History, theory, and praxis in Pacific Islands health / Seiji Yamada -- Doctors for global health : applying liberation medicine and accompanying communities in their struggles for health and social justice / Lanny Smith, Jennifer Kasper, and Timothy Holtz -- Doctors across blockades : American medical students in Cuba / Razel Remen and Brea Bondi-Boyd -- Conclusion : across the generations: lessons from health internationalism / Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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World health -- History -- 20th century.
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World health -- History -- 21st century.
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Electronic books.
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Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, 1964-
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Brown, Theodore M., 1942-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Comrades in health : U.S. health internationalists, abroad and at home. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013] xvi, 349 pages Critical issues in health and medicine 9780813561219 (DNLM)101592546 (DLC)10773708 |
| ISBN |
9780813561219 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780813561202 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780813561226 (electronic bk.) |
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